We compared ESET Endpoint Protection Platform and VMware Carbon Black Endpoint based on our users reviews in five parameters. After reading the collected data, you can find our conclusion below:
Comparison Results: Based on the reviews, the comparison between ESET Endpoint Protection Platform and VMware Carbon Black Endpoint reveals distinct differences. Users find the setup process for ESET to be simple and uncomplicated, unlike VMware Carbon Black, which can be difficult for unfamiliar users. ESET is recognized for its extensive range of features and user-friendliness, whereas Carbon Black stands out in terms of consistent log checking and policy enhancements. Areas where ESET could improve include mobile device coverage and customization, while Carbon Black could enhance node management and GUI. Pricing for ESET is varied, while Carbon Black is generally more expensive. The customer support for both products has received mixed feedback.
"he solution is an anti-malware product that integrates well with other vendor products such as firewalls, SIEM, etc. It captures threat intelligence and gives you better visibility. The product also has sandboxing features."
"Having all monitoring, response, tracking, and mitigation tools in one dashboard provides our analysts and SOC team with a comprehensive view at a glance."
"Fortinet is very user-friendly for customers."
"I like FortiClient EMS. FortiEDR has a lot of great features like lockdown mode, remote wipes, and encryption. I can set malware outbreak policies and controls for detecting abnormalities. You can also simulate phishing attacks."
"Fortinet has helped free up around 20 percent of our staff's time to help us out."
"Exceptions are easy to create and the interface is easy to follow with a nice appearance."
"We have FortiEDR installed on all our systems. This protects them from any threats."
"Fortinet FortiEDR made our clients feel secure and more at ease, knowing that they had an EDR solution that would close the gap in their security posture."
"The product does not slow down the machine."
"It's scalable."
"The pricing, if compared to other products, is cheap."
"I would say that this solution has the best support team in this kind of Endpoint protection product."
"The solution has a very good endpoint feature."
"The tools and the features available with this solution are very competitive. It is always updated to prevent upcoming attacks."
"The protection and device control features are the most valuable. I found its user interface and integration pretty good. It is very user friendly as compared to other products."
"Technical support has been very good. They're quick to respond to any problems."
"The solution has a library where we can have multiple threat intels onboarded. We just have to subscribe to a particular site intel and they'll provide us with all of the truncated details so that we can create IOCs and alerts on the basis of those IOCs."
"There's lots of very useful documentation online to help troubleshoot and learn about the product."
"Technical support is excellent."
"The product's most valuable feature is its ability to be fully integrated with the VMware environment."
"I feel that the initial setup was straightforward and not complex."
"We have another piece of that infrastructure that does what they call threat emulation. It's like sandboxing where it takes files that it doesn't know about, puts them in a VM-type environment, and it kicks them off to see if there's any malware or tendencies that might look like malware, that kind of thing."
"I found it very valuable as a whole. It is good at detecting anything and has kept us very safe. It is also very easy to use."
"The most valuable feature of the solution stems from the support it provides."
"The solution is not stable."
"FortiEDR can be improved by providing more detailed reporting."
"We find the solution to be a bit expensive."
"Everything with Fortinet having to do with their cloud services. They need to invest more in their internal infrastructure that they are running in the cloud. One of the things I find with their cloud environment compared to others' is that they go cheap on the equipment. So it causes some performance degradation."
"Cannot be used on mobile devices with a secure connection."
"The only minor concern is occasional interference with desired programs."
"We'd like to see more one-to-one product presentations for the distribution channels."
"The amount of usage, the number of details we get, or the number of options that can be tweaked is limited in comparison to that with other EDR solutions"
"If I were in an environment that required a large-scale deployment then I would choose another solution over ESET."
"ESET should consider giving it application control."
"We have experienced some problems with the actualization of some endpoints. We then have to manually reinstall the version on these endpoints."
"We do get false positives."
"They could improve the solution by adding better ransomware features."
"We are looking to move towards an EDR solution rather than EPP. EDR is a solution that can dynamically detect threats based on the process behavior. It would be better if this solution was an EDR and an EPP solution, this would increase security protection."
"I used Avira previously and ESET lacks certain aspects in comparison to Avira."
"The initial setup of ESET Endpoint Security was not complex because we have five years of experience. However, it is not as easy if we did not have the experience."
"It would be nice to have additional forensic tools that you can build into the back end."
"The local technical support is very poor, but the support from headquarters is very nice."
"Integration is difficult, but CB Defense is more powerful than others. It is difficult to implement but easy to pick up many detections."
"They will most likely need to create or include a feature that checks the network."
"In the past, we've seen some stability issues in the latest version releases. We tend to hang back one version just to make sure issues are fully resolved to avoid user disruption."
"Report generation can be improved."
"The GUI and reporting should be addressed and the product's administration features need fine tuning."
"With the on-prem one, the bug has been reported by the community in early January or February, something like that, at the beginning of the year, and it's still not addressed. They have released two versions since then, and yet neither of them addresses this specific issue."
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ESET Endpoint Protection Platform is ranked 11th in Endpoint Protection Platform (EPP) with 96 reviews while VMware Carbon Black Endpoint is ranked 16th in Endpoint Protection Platform (EPP) with 61 reviews. ESET Endpoint Protection Platform is rated 8.2, while VMware Carbon Black Endpoint is rated 8.0. The top reviewer of ESET Endpoint Protection Platform writes "Easy to set up with good security and rapidly improving capabilities". On the other hand, the top reviewer of VMware Carbon Black Endpoint writes "Centralization via the cloud allows us to protect and control people working from home". ESET Endpoint Protection Platform is most compared with Microsoft Defender for Endpoint, Kaspersky Endpoint Security for Business, CrowdStrike Falcon, SentinelOne Singularity Complete and Check Point Harmony Endpoint, whereas VMware Carbon Black Endpoint is most compared with CrowdStrike Falcon, Microsoft Defender for Endpoint, Trend Micro Deep Security, SentinelOne Singularity Complete and Cortex XDR by Palo Alto Networks. See our ESET Endpoint Protection Platform vs. VMware Carbon Black Endpoint report.
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